- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
The Financial Reporting Council ended the investigation of U.K. retail giant Tesco’s former CFO, and the Serious Fraud Office just brought charges against three more individuals. Neil Hodge has more.
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Companies considering entering a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.K. Serious Fraud Office might instead want to take their chances with a trial following the outcomes of a trio of recent high-profile corruption cases.
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has released details of the deferred prosecution agreement it struck with Tesco—on the same day the supermarket chain’s former finance director accused of the accounting fraud was acquitted.
Although British supermarket chain Tesco secured a DPA for its 2014 fraud offence, three of its executives still face a reckoning in court—with an uncertain outcome.
